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Remembering the Future
Warlpiri Life Through the Prism of Drawing
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Ideal for readers interested in anthropology, visual studies, Australian Indigenous histories, and cultural arts, as well as scholars exploring colonial and contemporary Indigenous experiences.
What can a collection of drawings reveal about their makers?Crayon drawings collected by anthropologists provide anilluminating prism through which to explore how the Warlpiri peopleof Central Australia have seen their place in the world and havebeen seen by others.In a lucid style Remembering the Future
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What can a collection of drawings reveal about their makers? Crayon drawings collected by anthropologists provide an illuminating prism through which to explore how the Warlpiri people of Central Australia have seen their place in the world and have been seen by others.
In a lucid style, Remembering the Future tracks the return to communities of an important collection, six decades after they were made. Discussions with many people, journeys to places, and archival research build a compelling account of the colonial and contemporary circumstances of Warlpiri lives.
As well as the truths the drawings might speak, the book concerns itself with the beguiling questions that remain unanswered and the limits of scholarship. Substantial and fresh insights are generated into the crucial place of images in relationships between Warlpiri people and the dominant society.
Remembering the Future makes a significant contribution to the anthropology and history of Central Australia, as well as the wider emergent field of visual studies.
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Professor Jane Lydon calls it "a very important book that breaks new ground in Aboriginal visual culture." Dr Luke Taylor highlights its fresh, multiperspectival approach to visual representation and notes it marks a generational shift in scholarship, offering deep insights beyond a typical art book.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781922059673
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 August 2014
Country: Australia
Imprint: Aboriginal Studies Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 245.0mm
Height: 276.0mm
Weight: 600g
Pages: 224
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About the Author
Melinda Hinkson is a social anthropologist with wide-ranging interests in anthropology and visual culture. Since the mid-1990s she has worked with Warlpiri people in central Australia on various forms of visual production and mediation. She has published widely on the mediated relationships between Warlpiri and wider Australia, the history of Australian anthropology and the politics of knowledge production. Currently a senior lecturer in anthropology and Visual Culture Research at the Australian national university, from mid-2014 Melinda embarks on a four-year Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. She has previously written/published Aboriginal Sydney; Coercive reconciliation, An appreciation of differenceand Culture crisis.
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